Happy Sunday evening, families! I hope this message finds you all warm and cozy in our homes as we await this next blast of winter. Just a few reminders about tomorrow:
IT'S 100's DAY!!!!
Don't forget to bring your bag of 100 things (remember they can be 100 different things, or 100 of the same thing!).
Don't forget to wear clothing with numbers, too!
Also, don't forget to return you Flat Stanley blue paper with the name and address of the person you want to send your flattie to.
Finally, if you haven't returned your conference time request sheet please do so ASAP. I am trying to finalize our schedule and am looking forward to seeing each one of my families!
Thanks so much. Stay warm and be safe!
Here is our Specials Rotation for the week, too. Remember those library books on "C" days!
Monday = A Tuesday = B Wednesday = C Thursday = D Friday = A
Miss Beverage's First Grade!
Soaring like an EAGLE!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The First Full Week of the Year!
Monday = A Tuesday = B Wednesday = C Thursday = D Friday = A
Hello families! We have almost made it to our first full week of school in 2011! No snow days, no holidays, just time for learning and LOTS of catch-up from all of these missed days. Be sure to check tomorrow's newsletter carefully for updates on many of our upcoming activiites. Some important dates and things to remember:
1. Friday (tomorrow) is MOVIE NIGHT! First grade is sponsering tomorrow's movie night. We will be showing Shrek Forever After. It starts at 6pm and ends at 9pm. Hope to see you!
2. Monday January 31 is 100's Day! Can you believe we've been in first grade for nearly 100 days? In honor of this big day, the kids have been given an assignment. They need to try and wear clothes with numbers on them on Monday as well as bring their bag of 100 items (a note went home two weeks ago, with another reminder earlier this week).
3. Conference slips are due back ASAP. I have received almost all of them back, but am missing a few. Please let me know when a good time is to meet and talk about all of the wonderful things your child is doing!
4. Valentine's Day party is Monday February 14.
5. Conferences are February 16-17.
6. No school February 18-21!
Have your child tell you about all of the amazing things we've been learning about in first grade. Here is a list of conversation starter-themes:
*Martin Luther King Jr.
*Penguins
*Venn Diagrams
*Mr. Munch
*Matter
Let me know if you have any questions. Hope to see many of you tomorrow at movie night!
Hello families! We have almost made it to our first full week of school in 2011! No snow days, no holidays, just time for learning and LOTS of catch-up from all of these missed days. Be sure to check tomorrow's newsletter carefully for updates on many of our upcoming activiites. Some important dates and things to remember:
1. Friday (tomorrow) is MOVIE NIGHT! First grade is sponsering tomorrow's movie night. We will be showing Shrek Forever After. It starts at 6pm and ends at 9pm. Hope to see you!
2. Monday January 31 is 100's Day! Can you believe we've been in first grade for nearly 100 days? In honor of this big day, the kids have been given an assignment. They need to try and wear clothes with numbers on them on Monday as well as bring their bag of 100 items (a note went home two weeks ago, with another reminder earlier this week).
3. Conference slips are due back ASAP. I have received almost all of them back, but am missing a few. Please let me know when a good time is to meet and talk about all of the wonderful things your child is doing!
4. Valentine's Day party is Monday February 14.
5. Conferences are February 16-17.
6. No school February 18-21!
Have your child tell you about all of the amazing things we've been learning about in first grade. Here is a list of conversation starter-themes:
*Martin Luther King Jr.
*Penguins
*Venn Diagrams
*Mr. Munch
*Matter
Let me know if you have any questions. Hope to see many of you tomorrow at movie night!
Monday, January 17, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Winter Waddle
Wednesday = A Thursday = B Friday = C
Hello families! Welcome back after our surprise snow days! I hope you all stayed warm with your kiddos and enjoyed a little extra time with them. We braved the cold today and returned to room 111. I was so happy to see my friends walk in this morning with their red cheeks! We did a lot of journaling this morning about our snow days. Then, we read the story The Snowy Day. We used the character in the book, Peter, and compared what Peter did on his snowy days with the things that we did during our snow days. The kids created another Venn Diagram comparing themselves and Peter. It was fun to see what activities they shared with our book character today.
We also read book 2 in the Tacky series. Today was Three Cheers for Tacky. The kids think that Tacky is a halarious character. Ask your child to tell you what kind of an animal Tacky is and what makes him so funny. They may also want to recite the cheer from today's story. Ask them to preform Tacky's funny cheer or his friends' proper cheer. Check their retention of this story by asking them to reflect and re-tell you about it.
We introduced the vocabulary word "FACTS". We began our list of penguin facts, too! Have your child tell you three facts about these unusual birds.
In math, we jumped into learning about 10's and 1's. This is a tricky concept for many children. We learned how we need to group things in sets of 10 and tried to figure out how many 10's are in the number 34, and also how many ones are in that number. Help your child at home by giving them a large group of similiar objects (marbles, Q-tips, cottonballs, raisins, etc.) have them group the items into sets of 10. The left-overs (those that do not have enough to make a 10-set) will tell them how many ones are in their number. For example, if I had two sets of 10 Q-tips each and 6 left over my number would be 24. See if they can group the items and then tell you their number.
Your child is bringing home a Reading Rewards packet today. Please be sure you read it and fill out the enclosed forms. It is a program that helps our kids recieve our TIME for kids magazines at no cost for parents. You do not have to buy anything (yay!) just fill out 7 of the forms. Thank you in advance for your support!
Have a wonderful and warm evening. Be safe if you have to venture out and let me know if you have any questions.
Hello families! Welcome back after our surprise snow days! I hope you all stayed warm with your kiddos and enjoyed a little extra time with them. We braved the cold today and returned to room 111. I was so happy to see my friends walk in this morning with their red cheeks! We did a lot of journaling this morning about our snow days. Then, we read the story The Snowy Day. We used the character in the book, Peter, and compared what Peter did on his snowy days with the things that we did during our snow days. The kids created another Venn Diagram comparing themselves and Peter. It was fun to see what activities they shared with our book character today.
We also read book 2 in the Tacky series. Today was Three Cheers for Tacky. The kids think that Tacky is a halarious character. Ask your child to tell you what kind of an animal Tacky is and what makes him so funny. They may also want to recite the cheer from today's story. Ask them to preform Tacky's funny cheer or his friends' proper cheer. Check their retention of this story by asking them to reflect and re-tell you about it.
We introduced the vocabulary word "FACTS". We began our list of penguin facts, too! Have your child tell you three facts about these unusual birds.
In math, we jumped into learning about 10's and 1's. This is a tricky concept for many children. We learned how we need to group things in sets of 10 and tried to figure out how many 10's are in the number 34, and also how many ones are in that number. Help your child at home by giving them a large group of similiar objects (marbles, Q-tips, cottonballs, raisins, etc.) have them group the items into sets of 10. The left-overs (those that do not have enough to make a 10-set) will tell them how many ones are in their number. For example, if I had two sets of 10 Q-tips each and 6 left over my number would be 24. See if they can group the items and then tell you their number.
Your child is bringing home a Reading Rewards packet today. Please be sure you read it and fill out the enclosed forms. It is a program that helps our kids recieve our TIME for kids magazines at no cost for parents. You do not have to buy anything (yay!) just fill out 7 of the forms. Thank you in advance for your support!
Have a wonderful and warm evening. Be safe if you have to venture out and let me know if you have any questions.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Thursday Tidbits
It's snowing in our classroom! We finished our symmetrical snowflakes and made them "glisten" today. See if your child can tell you what "glisten" means and ask them to tell you what we added to our snowflakes to make them fancy. Today, we read a different version of "The Mitten" that we had read yesterday. We talked about how folktales have been passed down and how parts of the stories get changed slightly when they are re-told. Today we read Jan Brett's version of The Mitten and had a great time finding out things that were the same between the two versions and also finding the things that were different. In order to organize our findings, we introduced Venn Diagrams and the kids created their own Venn Diagram to compare the 2 versions. This is a tricky concept, but they did great. We went on to compare members of our classroom family and look for ways in which we are different and the same. See if your child can remember you how Eli and Kye were the same or different, or how David and Ms. Beverage were the same or different. Continue this at home by having your child create their own Venn Diagram comparing the similarities and differences between themselves and a sibling or parent. It's a great excercise to get your child thinking on a higher level!
In math we continued to do lots of review. Our first grade goal for this quarter is to write our numbers in order to 100. We did some candy cane math to practice and many of our children earned their 100 prize today. Ask your child to tell you about it.
In art we learned about primary and intermediate colors. Check your child's understanding by asking them to tell you about each one.
Tomorrow wraps up our short welcome-back week. Be ready for the cold air that is supposed to be arriving and be sure your kids are bundled up next week!
Have a great evening!
In math we continued to do lots of review. Our first grade goal for this quarter is to write our numbers in order to 100. We did some candy cane math to practice and many of our children earned their 100 prize today. Ask your child to tell you about it.
In art we learned about primary and intermediate colors. Check your child's understanding by asking them to tell you about each one.
Tomorrow wraps up our short welcome-back week. Be ready for the cold air that is supposed to be arriving and be sure your kids are bundled up next week!
Have a great evening!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Welcome to 2011!
Thursday = A Friday = B
Happy New Year in room 111! Our first day of the new year together was wonderful! It was so great to have all of my friends back. They were ready to rock this morning and stayed energized all day! We welcomed our new friend, Kassidy, today. Everyone was so loving and kind to her. I was very proud of each one of them. We did a lot of journaling about our winter break. It was so fun to hear about all of their adventures and treasures! It sounds like Pillow Pets, DS's and Snuggies were hot items this year! Way to go.
Our story today was an old Ukrainian folktale called, The Mitten. Your child listened to the story, used visualization to imagine the story, learned several new vocabulary words such as "trudged" and worked on sequencing events in this old tale. Tonight they are bringing home their yellow mitten with an assignment on the front. They should be able to use their mitten and the character squares inside of it to re-tell the story. The concept of re-telling is crucial improving your child's reading comprehension! Please encourage them to re-tell or summarize the important events in all the stories they read with you at home. During their re-tell tonight, encourage them to include details about the boy, Ivan, in our story.
Ask:
What was Ivan doing when he lost his mitten?
Where did Ivan lose his mitten?
How do you think Ivan felt when he lost his favorite mitten? Why do you think that?
Why did the mouse tell the owl that he could come in if he had good manners?
Questions like this will help your child remember important events from this story and strengthens their comprehension skills, which will help them a great deal in the upcoming semester.
In math today we did lots of review to make sure our brains hadn't turned too mushy over break! I am happy to report that we were all sharp as tacks! We worked on our January calendar and used a number chart to solve big addition problems
(92 + 8 = ?).
This afternoon we worked on making fancy snowflakes and it took some muscle power! We haven't unveiled our creations yet, but tomorrow we will see the result of our hard work.
Welcome back! I am so excited for this semester with your child. As always, let me know if you ever have any questions or if you need anything. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year in room 111! Our first day of the new year together was wonderful! It was so great to have all of my friends back. They were ready to rock this morning and stayed energized all day! We welcomed our new friend, Kassidy, today. Everyone was so loving and kind to her. I was very proud of each one of them. We did a lot of journaling about our winter break. It was so fun to hear about all of their adventures and treasures! It sounds like Pillow Pets, DS's and Snuggies were hot items this year! Way to go.
Our story today was an old Ukrainian folktale called, The Mitten. Your child listened to the story, used visualization to imagine the story, learned several new vocabulary words such as "trudged" and worked on sequencing events in this old tale. Tonight they are bringing home their yellow mitten with an assignment on the front. They should be able to use their mitten and the character squares inside of it to re-tell the story. The concept of re-telling is crucial improving your child's reading comprehension! Please encourage them to re-tell or summarize the important events in all the stories they read with you at home. During their re-tell tonight, encourage them to include details about the boy, Ivan, in our story.
Ask:
What was Ivan doing when he lost his mitten?
Where did Ivan lose his mitten?
How do you think Ivan felt when he lost his favorite mitten? Why do you think that?
Why did the mouse tell the owl that he could come in if he had good manners?
Questions like this will help your child remember important events from this story and strengthens their comprehension skills, which will help them a great deal in the upcoming semester.
In math today we did lots of review to make sure our brains hadn't turned too mushy over break! I am happy to report that we were all sharp as tacks! We worked on our January calendar and used a number chart to solve big addition problems
(92 + 8 = ?).
This afternoon we worked on making fancy snowflakes and it took some muscle power! We haven't unveiled our creations yet, but tomorrow we will see the result of our hard work.
Welcome back! I am so excited for this semester with your child. As always, let me know if you ever have any questions or if you need anything. Happy New Year!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Are you ready????
Wednesday = D Thursday = A Friday = B
Hi friends! I hope this post finds you all doing great and ready to come back to school tomorrow! I am so excited to see each one of you and hear about all of the fun and exciting things that you did over winter break. I have some exciting news! Tomorrow we will be welcoming a new friend to our class family! Please be ready to greet our friend, Kassidy, with kindness and smiles. I know you will all help Kassidy feel right at home in her new school and show her what a wonderful place Sunflower is!
We have lots of fun things to learn in 2011. I hope you are rested and ready to come back and see me. I have missed you! I will be waiting for you tomorrow at our door!
Hi friends! I hope this post finds you all doing great and ready to come back to school tomorrow! I am so excited to see each one of you and hear about all of the fun and exciting things that you did over winter break. I have some exciting news! Tomorrow we will be welcoming a new friend to our class family! Please be ready to greet our friend, Kassidy, with kindness and smiles. I know you will all help Kassidy feel right at home in her new school and show her what a wonderful place Sunflower is!
We have lots of fun things to learn in 2011. I hope you are rested and ready to come back and see me. I have missed you! I will be waiting for you tomorrow at our door!
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
We're working like mad to wrap up 2010!
Hi friends! It has been a while since we've posted last and we apologize! We have been working our tails off in first grade getting ready to wrap up our SECOND quarter! We have been learning many new things. We have learned about contractions since our last post. Have your child teach you about contractions (hint: they should be able to tell you that a contration has an apostrophe!). We continue to work on ABC order to the second and third letter! Today we even had to alphabetize words to the FOURTH letter! WOW. We are mastering counting like groups of money and subtraction just in time for our test next Thursday! Extra practice at home having your child write their numbers by 5's and 10's will help them a great deal. Also, continue helping your child learn coin value and identification by providing them like groups of coins. They can sort, count, or hunt for various coins in a group. If you child has mastered this already, challenge them by having them count mixed groups of coins.
If your child is participating in AR at this point, please be sure you have them read their AR book to you nightly and remember the BOOK TALK. Their scores on these tests truly reflects if they have an understanding of the book they have read. Remember that reading is much more than knowing the words on the page, we want our kids to understand what they are reading, too!
We have another week of 100% return on our Power Drill! Way to go! We continue to be the only first grade class with this turn out, weekly. I am so proud of our kids for being responsible and getting their homework done on time. Great job!
Your child has traveled to Mrs. Keister's writing class last week and learned about letter writing. This week our kids are traveling to Mrs. O'Toole's science class. Ask them to tell you about the things they are learning in science this week.
A few heads up for the last few weeks of school in 2010:
1. Next Wednesday the 15th our class will be going to the Holiday Shoppe! Envelopes and a letter about the holiday shoppe came home last Friday. If you choose to participate, please return your envelope and money by next Wednesday morning.
2. Our Holiday Party will be on Monday December 20th. A letter will be coming home soon about the party and supplies that we are in need of to make it another wonderful experience!
3. Polar Express Day is Tuesday December 21. All first graders will gear up for winter break with this magical and wonderful day, focused around this classic story. More information will be coming home soon! Get your pajamas ready!
Thank you again, for your continued support and work at home. As we wrap up this second quarter, I am so proud of our kids for all of the accomplishments they have achieved!
Oh, and don't forget that tomorrow DECEMBER 9th is LIBRARY! Bring your books back!
If your child is participating in AR at this point, please be sure you have them read their AR book to you nightly and remember the BOOK TALK. Their scores on these tests truly reflects if they have an understanding of the book they have read. Remember that reading is much more than knowing the words on the page, we want our kids to understand what they are reading, too!
We have another week of 100% return on our Power Drill! Way to go! We continue to be the only first grade class with this turn out, weekly. I am so proud of our kids for being responsible and getting their homework done on time. Great job!
Your child has traveled to Mrs. Keister's writing class last week and learned about letter writing. This week our kids are traveling to Mrs. O'Toole's science class. Ask them to tell you about the things they are learning in science this week.
A few heads up for the last few weeks of school in 2010:
1. Next Wednesday the 15th our class will be going to the Holiday Shoppe! Envelopes and a letter about the holiday shoppe came home last Friday. If you choose to participate, please return your envelope and money by next Wednesday morning.
2. Our Holiday Party will be on Monday December 20th. A letter will be coming home soon about the party and supplies that we are in need of to make it another wonderful experience!
3. Polar Express Day is Tuesday December 21. All first graders will gear up for winter break with this magical and wonderful day, focused around this classic story. More information will be coming home soon! Get your pajamas ready!
Thank you again, for your continued support and work at home. As we wrap up this second quarter, I am so proud of our kids for all of the accomplishments they have achieved!
Oh, and don't forget that tomorrow DECEMBER 9th is LIBRARY! Bring your books back!
Monday, November 29, 2010
Farewell November!
Welcome back! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break together. The kids came back full of stories and excitement about their Thanksgiving activities this morning. It was great to see all of my smiling faces and hear about their holiday adventures. I have made another new slideshow for you to watch from various fall activites. We had such a busy and wonderful November, it's hard to believe that we will be welcoming December in two more days!
Some exciting reminders going on at school this week:
1. The book fair is all week. Come by the library to check it out! Your child went to Library today and made a wish list of items that interested them. They should have brought their wish list home today.
2. Thursday is Grandparents and Special Friends Day! If you child has a grandparent or special friend who would like to join them for lunch this Thursday, they are more than welcome! It is a great time for your child to show them the Book Fair and their classroom. I would love to meet these special people in your child's life!
Don't forget that tonight is the city lighting ceremony at Cornerstone Park. Sunflower will be represented by our 4th grade choir. Santa makes an appearance in a fire truck and there is a big countdown to the lighting. It is lots of fun! I would love to see you.
We have just over 3 weeks until winter break! Amazing! Let me know if you have any questions. Have a wonderful Monday!
Some exciting reminders going on at school this week:
1. The book fair is all week. Come by the library to check it out! Your child went to Library today and made a wish list of items that interested them. They should have brought their wish list home today.
2. Thursday is Grandparents and Special Friends Day! If you child has a grandparent or special friend who would like to join them for lunch this Thursday, they are more than welcome! It is a great time for your child to show them the Book Fair and their classroom. I would love to meet these special people in your child's life!
Don't forget that tonight is the city lighting ceremony at Cornerstone Park. Sunflower will be represented by our 4th grade choir. Santa makes an appearance in a fire truck and there is a big countdown to the lighting. It is lots of fun! I would love to see you.
We have just over 3 weeks until winter break! Amazing! Let me know if you have any questions. Have a wonderful Monday!
Monday, November 8, 2010
Monday= C Tuesday= D Wednesday= A Thursday=B Friday= C
Happy Monday! Today we were introduced to compound words. Ask your child to tell you what they know about comPOUND words ("pound" is a clue!). We played a matching game, went on a compound word hunt in different books and used picture clues to match and write new compound words. Your child should be able to tell you at least 5 different compound words. Be sure to remind them to tell you the two separate words that are "pounded" together. For example, "birthday"-your child should be able to tell you that "birth" + "day" = "BIRTHDAY"!
We continued to learn about coins. We are working hard to identify both the front and back of each coin (penny, nickel, dime, quarter) in addition to knowing their value. Practice with your child at home by giving them some real coins to use and examine. Then, ask them to name each coin and tell you each value. As a bonus, see if they can name the president on each coin. We did a little research today and found pictures of the 4 presidents on these coins on the internet. Have them show what they know! As additional practice, have your child count LIKE groups of coins. For example, give them 6 nickels to count and ask them to tell you the VALUE of the set (30 cents). Do this same check with pennies and dimes. We are not ready for quarters yet, so let's wait before we try them out!
We also worked with mixed sets of addition and subtraction facts today. We realized the importance of looking at the sign to tell us what to do (addition or subtraction). Continued practice at home helps us find even more success here at school!
We learned a little about totem poles and what they mean to Native Americans. Our class will be creating a class totem pole and we began this project by coming up with a list of symbols that represent us. Ask your child to tell you what they suggested and have them tell you WHY their animal or symbol represents us. We have some great suggestions such as a sunflower, because we go to Sunflower school. A monkey because we talk a lot and are a "wild" class. A lion because we are strong leaders. And a flag because we live in the United States. What great ideas! This will be a fabulous project. I can't wait!
Finally, we heard little peeps coming from across the hall this afternoon! Mrs. Morgovnik's eggs are starting to emerge from their shells. We all traveled across the hall to observe what was happening. Ask you child to tell you about what they saw and heard! How exciting. We made predictions as to how many baby chicks would be hatched by tomorrow. Ask you child to tell you their prediction!
Be sure to check out our "Fall Subtraction Stories" movie from my previous post! We worked long and hard on this writing/math project. Our kids did GREAT! Have a wonderful week!
Happy Monday! Today we were introduced to compound words. Ask your child to tell you what they know about comPOUND words ("pound" is a clue!). We played a matching game, went on a compound word hunt in different books and used picture clues to match and write new compound words. Your child should be able to tell you at least 5 different compound words. Be sure to remind them to tell you the two separate words that are "pounded" together. For example, "birthday"-your child should be able to tell you that "birth" + "day" = "BIRTHDAY"!
We continued to learn about coins. We are working hard to identify both the front and back of each coin (penny, nickel, dime, quarter) in addition to knowing their value. Practice with your child at home by giving them some real coins to use and examine. Then, ask them to name each coin and tell you each value. As a bonus, see if they can name the president on each coin. We did a little research today and found pictures of the 4 presidents on these coins on the internet. Have them show what they know! As additional practice, have your child count LIKE groups of coins. For example, give them 6 nickels to count and ask them to tell you the VALUE of the set (30 cents). Do this same check with pennies and dimes. We are not ready for quarters yet, so let's wait before we try them out!
We also worked with mixed sets of addition and subtraction facts today. We realized the importance of looking at the sign to tell us what to do (addition or subtraction). Continued practice at home helps us find even more success here at school!
We learned a little about totem poles and what they mean to Native Americans. Our class will be creating a class totem pole and we began this project by coming up with a list of symbols that represent us. Ask your child to tell you what they suggested and have them tell you WHY their animal or symbol represents us. We have some great suggestions such as a sunflower, because we go to Sunflower school. A monkey because we talk a lot and are a "wild" class. A lion because we are strong leaders. And a flag because we live in the United States. What great ideas! This will be a fabulous project. I can't wait!
Finally, we heard little peeps coming from across the hall this afternoon! Mrs. Morgovnik's eggs are starting to emerge from their shells. We all traveled across the hall to observe what was happening. Ask you child to tell you about what they saw and heard! How exciting. We made predictions as to how many baby chicks would be hatched by tomorrow. Ask you child to tell you their prediction!
Be sure to check out our "Fall Subtraction Stories" movie from my previous post! We worked long and hard on this writing/math project. Our kids did GREAT! Have a wonderful week!
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Happy November!
Monday= B Tuesday= C Wednesday= D Thursday= A Friday= B
Welcome to November in first grade! Is that possible??? I hope you all had a safe and warm Halloween weekend. I was so happy to have all of my first grade friends at school today after a busy night. We jumped right into a new month getting caught up from the chaos of last week! We introduced sight word list ten and found several homonyms on this week's list. Be sure your child knows what "too" we are learning this week, as well as what "four". This can be tricky!
In math this week, we are introducing the concept of identifying and counting like-groups of coins. Extra work at home will help your child a great deal! We began today by sharpening up our skip-counting skills by practicing by 5's and 10's. The more comfortable the children are in this area, the more successful they will be when counting groups of nickels and dimes.
We completed our November calender today. It should find it's way home in your child's backpack. Have your child tell you about the important dates that they marked.
We continued to create, read and interpret graphs today too. We even used our graph to discover some exciting news about me today! Have your child tell you about our graph entitled "How Many Kids Does Ms. Beverage Have?". Your child can tell you their vote and they should also be able to share the real answer. Surprises all around! :)
Don't forget that a new Power Drill is coming home today. As always, your child has until Thursday to hand it in. We are trying to keep up our pattern of 100% completion for our class. We are the only class so far to have had every member earn their way into Power Half-Hour! Keep it up!
Thank you to everyone who sent in goodies for our basket auction! Our "Snow Day" basket turned out to be a good one! We couldn't have done it without your donations. You are the best!
Thank you also to all of my first graders for the beautiful birthday flower pot they surprised me with last Friday! I absolutely LOVE it. You are so thoughtful to remember me on my birthday. Thank you.
One last reminder, please be sure to send your child in a COAT. Now that the weather is getting colder, they are getting more red-cheeked at recess. If the tempreature is above freezing, we go outside so bundle up!
As always, don't hesitate to email or call if you have any questions! Have a great evening.
Welcome to November in first grade! Is that possible??? I hope you all had a safe and warm Halloween weekend. I was so happy to have all of my first grade friends at school today after a busy night. We jumped right into a new month getting caught up from the chaos of last week! We introduced sight word list ten and found several homonyms on this week's list. Be sure your child knows what "too" we are learning this week, as well as what "four". This can be tricky!
In math this week, we are introducing the concept of identifying and counting like-groups of coins. Extra work at home will help your child a great deal! We began today by sharpening up our skip-counting skills by practicing by 5's and 10's. The more comfortable the children are in this area, the more successful they will be when counting groups of nickels and dimes.
We completed our November calender today. It should find it's way home in your child's backpack. Have your child tell you about the important dates that they marked.
We continued to create, read and interpret graphs today too. We even used our graph to discover some exciting news about me today! Have your child tell you about our graph entitled "How Many Kids Does Ms. Beverage Have?". Your child can tell you their vote and they should also be able to share the real answer. Surprises all around! :)
Don't forget that a new Power Drill is coming home today. As always, your child has until Thursday to hand it in. We are trying to keep up our pattern of 100% completion for our class. We are the only class so far to have had every member earn their way into Power Half-Hour! Keep it up!
Thank you to everyone who sent in goodies for our basket auction! Our "Snow Day" basket turned out to be a good one! We couldn't have done it without your donations. You are the best!
Thank you also to all of my first graders for the beautiful birthday flower pot they surprised me with last Friday! I absolutely LOVE it. You are so thoughtful to remember me on my birthday. Thank you.
One last reminder, please be sure to send your child in a COAT. Now that the weather is getting colder, they are getting more red-cheeked at recess. If the tempreature is above freezing, we go outside so bundle up!
As always, don't hesitate to email or call if you have any questions! Have a great evening.
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